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Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Higher education is understood to play a critical role in ongoing processes of
social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa through the production
of graduates who are critical and engaged citizens. A key challenge ...
Integration of theory and practice in Social Work: challenges and triumphs
(University of Stellenbosch, 2013)
Introduction: Teaching (in any discipline) is rewarding when students show the required growth and development in terms of their knowledge, skills and attitude (within the social work context) (Kadushin & Harkness, 2002). ...
Student and staff perceptions and experiences of the introduction of Objective Structured Practical Examinations: a pilot study
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013)
Background. The Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE) is widely recognised as one of the more objective methods of assessing practical skills in healthcare programmes, including undergraduate physiotherapy ...
Beyond knowledge and skills: the use of a Delphi study to develop a technology-mediated teaching strategy
(BioMed Central, 2013)
Background: While there is evidence to suggest that teaching practices in clinical education should include activities that more accurately reflect the real world, many educators base their teaching on transmission models ...
Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of
their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed
in their studies, students are expected to ...
Introducing e-learning in a South African Higher Education institution: challenges arising from an intervention and possible responses
(Blackwell, 2013)
This article draws on research conducted at a tertiary institution in South Africa as part
of the redesigning of an English for Educational Development (EED) course to include an
e-learning online discussion component. ...
Using the human capabilities approach as a normative framework to evaluate institutional teaching and learning interventions at UWC
(UNISA, 2013)
This article uses the human capabilities approach to evaluate an institutional approach
to teaching and learning at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The human
capabilities framework makes it possible to examine ...
Students' ontological security and agency in science education - an example from reasoning about the use of gene technology
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This paper reports on a study of how students' reasoning about socioscientific issues is framed by three dynamics: societal structures, agency and how trust and security issues are handled. Examples from gene technology ...
Towards a shared understanding of emerging technologies: Experiences in a collaborative research project in South Africa
(The African Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), 2013)
While the practice of using educational technologies in Higher Education is increasingly common among educators, there is a paucity of research on innovative uses of emerging technologies to transform teaching and learning. ...
A pedagogy of critical hope in South African Higher Education
(Routledge, 2013)
How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts? At this ...